In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

